St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-14

OO1 ., 1881.
Methodist pulpit here. Mr.. Lamson't
address at Weirs comes tomorrow.
There will be services at the South
church as usual next Sunday. Rev
c. E. Harrington, of Keene, N. H., ii
expected to preach the last two Sun
days in July and Rev. DIR. Twitchell o.
Hartford the first Sunday in August
The railroad commissioners hav,
been making a careful examination o
the Passumpsic road this week, com.
ing from White River junction to st
Johnsbury Tuesday, and going up the
road to Newport yesterday by special
car.
-Barnum's circus will exhibit this
year on the fair ground. The dwell
ers on the Plain are agitated over the
rumOr that the morning procession
will not appear on Main street. fhe
show itself is said to be fully up to its
old standard.
There is great dearth of freight
cars on the st. j. & L. G. road as well
as on the larger roads of the country.
Twenty-six cars came in from West
Concord Tuesday evening all but
three or four of them loaded with lum-
Der from the Victory branch.
The band will give an out door
concert this evening in Paddock vii
lage. Should the weather be unfavor-
able it will be given Saturday evening
The concert on the school common last
week was an excellent one and was en-
jOyed by large number.
"A night blooming cereus, placed
on the platform of the Baptist church
Sunday evening as an ornament, be-
gan to unfold itself and before the
meeting was over had come out in full
bloom. 1t furnished some very happy
for the speakers.
-Taxidermist Graham is meeting
with great success in refurnishing his
museum of curiosities. He already
has frog circus in full operation, and
pretty much all the stories of mythOl-
Ogy are being illustrated, fishes and
frogs taking the place of gods and he
rOes.
Fred Robinson's little child fell
from a window in the second story OF
Caleb MarshalPs house, where Mr..
Robinson lives, OH Tuesday, distance
of some IA feet to the ground. The
surprising part of it was that the child
though bruised was not seriously in
jured.
Hotel Champlain at Maquam open.
ed last week under the prOprietOrshiI
of G.. F. Smith. The steamer Maquam
will run to Plattsburg, N. Y, as usual
making connections with the various
New York lines. Every effort will be
made to sustain the reputation of this
excellent summer hotel.
The annual examination of the
Passumpsic bank is completed and the
result will be found i'm the admirable
statement of this solid institution pub
lished elsewhere. This bank declares
a semi annual dividend of 24 per cent.
has a surplus of $22, 800, and undivid
ed profits to the amount of SIS, 432 "a
The Argus st. JOhnsbury CORES
pOndent discusses the Fourth of July
disturbances here from theological
standpoint after fashion that beat
the AndOver matter all hollow. 1t il
pleasant to note, however, that the ar
ticle "Let us reason together" in las
weeks issue was read and approved
by the correspondent.
Postmaster Bowman has been max
ing an effort to get a Boston mai
pouch on the morning newspaper train
thus getting Boston mail in here a
Ii a. m. Major Bowman was notifie,
Saturday that it couldn't be done be
cause the newspaper train is privat
enterprise run by the newspapers ant
for the newspapers alone.
One of the Batchelder & MOultOn'
painters, while engaged in painting G
A. Whitcher's house on Pearl street on
day last wick, fell from the secOn,
story to the ground, distance owe
% feet, without injury. He was &C
companied on his downward trip b.
the ladder, paint pot, ETC., and it is
wonder that he didn't break his neck
The ladies of Chamberiin relic
corps are fitting out box for the sol
diers' home. Anyone who would lik
to send books, periodicals, pictures o
any articles useful or ornamental t
help make the home pleasant, comfort
able and homelike, can do so by leav
ing them at the house of Mrs. Park
hurst, "a Railroad street, before Jul
20.
In its report of the Hyde Park cen
tennial celebration the Morrisville Cit
izen says: ''Next to Gov. Stewart til
chief address of the occasion was t
have been delivered by Judge POLAND